This was a federal case. The applicants were the Sierra Club of British Columbia Foundation and the Western Canada Wildnerness Committee, while the respondent was the Minister of Environment and Climate Change. This judicial review application challenged the ministerial decision issuing a protection statement for the habitat to which the Migratory Birds Convention Act, 1994 applied for migratory birds listed under the Species at Risk Act. The hearing was set on Nov. 1, 2023. No financial award was specified.